Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)

Coinbase

10h•$218,025 - $256,500•Remote

About The Position

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. Coinbase Advisor is described as an RIA-licensed agentic trading system: an AI advisor within the Coinbase app that converses about users’ portfolios, provides personalized financial advice, and executes trades on their behalf. The position is primarily backend on a full-stack team and is responsible for services that make agentic trading fast, clear, and trustworthy for customers.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise and a track record of shipping and operating production services.
Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly.
Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation.
Ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment.
Use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation.
Build integrations with Coinbase trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution.
Develop the agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions.
Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evaluations, and conversation analysis, partnering with the registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice.
Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions.
Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails.